CHINA-BEIJING-GREAT WALL-FATHER AND SON-RESEARCH (CN)
(231213) -- BEIJING, Dec. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 23, 2023 shows Yan Xinqiang (L) and Yan Gongming sharing their research results about the Great Wall during an activity to share their new book in Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall.
Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall.
This year they published a picture book on the
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